Mysticism

Mysticism is "a constellation of distinctive practices, discourses, texts, institutions, traditions, and experiences aimed at human transformation, variously defined in different traditions." ...more

The Manningtree Witches
All This & More
The Third Realm (Morgenstjernen, #3)
A New Name: Septology VI-VII
Gold
Fervor
William Blake vs the World
Tarot Deciphered: Decoding Esoteric Symbolism in Modern Tarot
A Book of Life
Witchcraft
Maya of the In-between (Maya Rising, #1)
Plant Magick. The Library of Esoterica
She Who Rose From Ashes (Legënd of the Mystics)
Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe
When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes
Revelations of Divine Love
Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
Interior Castle
Tao Te Ching
The Alchemist
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
Dark Night of the Soul
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism (Modern Library Classics)
The Pythagorean
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Cloud of Unknowing
Alchemy & Mysticism
Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
The Essential Rumi
The Power of Shamanism and Energy Medicine by Sheldon ShalleyThe Kybalion by Three InitiatesThe Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. HallThe Enneads by PlotinusThe Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Atlantean by Maurice Doreal
Library of Gnosis
156 books — 56 voters
Zohar by AnonymousStudies in Ecstatic Kabbalah by Moshe IdelMeditation and Kabbalah by Aryeh KaplanEXSTATICA Self-Help Essentials by FrankKabbalah by Moshe Idel
Best Kabbalah Lists
26 books — 20 voters

El3osba #1 (El-Osba by John MaherZanjan by Aaron EmmelPalmyra by Paul Veyne
Middle Eastern-themed
3 books — 2 voters
The Decline of the West by Oswald SpenglerThe Myth of the Twentieth Century by Alfred RosenbergImperium by Francis Parker YockeyThe Mystery of the Cathedrals by FulcanelliTraditions of Glastonbury by E. Raymond Capt
Boyd Rice's recommended reading list
102 books — 7 voters



Tom Robbins
Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.
Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

Neil Postman
. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of life to the sovereignty of numbers. Many of our psychologists, sociologists, economists and other latter-day cabalists will have numbers to tell them the truth or they will have nothing. . . . We must remember that Galileo merely said that the language of nature is written in mathematics. He did not say that everything is. And even the truth about nature need not be expressed ...more
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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